Insurance

May 31st 2024

Presenters from CMS and the CDC explored the importance of standardizing health equity data collection at the 2024 CMS Health Equity Conference.

May 31st 2024

There has been a lack of visible progress from RECOVER, the $1.6 billion initiative launched by the National Institutes of Health to research long COVID; the CDC has detected a third human case of bird flu linked to sick dairy cows; small businesses and their workers are struggling to receive weight-loss drug insurance coverage.

May 21st 2024

A new program from Optum Rx would offer greater predictability by using a guarantee-based pricing model.

May 21st 2024

Patients struggle to afford glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications for diabetes; doctors see potential and pitfalls in new ChatGPT model’s humanlike conversations; Medicare payment reform efforts focus on inflation adjustments and payment model overhauls.